Do Not Call
Last day to get your number on the national Do Not Call list.
Because someone has to support innovation…
The Switala Foundation supports creativity and innovation in the arts and media. Started in 2002 by my dear friend, Rebecca Bernstein, for her husband, Tim Switala, “a creative innovator, who dedicated his life to helping others think outside the box.” The Goo Goo Dolls are performing at Darien Lake Performing Arts Center on August 26, ...
Oswego
Driving two hours northeast to the edge of Lake Ontario to do a presentation at SUNY Oswego with MS.
Phoning in photos for posterity
Last week’s blackout gave moblogging its first real chance to provide grassroots coverage of a major news event says this piece. The result: Lots of digital photos appearing on weblogs taken in the blackout zone by people using digital phone/cameras. Travis Larson, spokesman for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association: “This may be the first ...
Net not affected
Write Robert MacMillan of the Washington Post, “no refrigeration, no subways, no smooth traffic flow, no air conditioning—well, at least the Internet worked. So did the phones, at least in theory. That was the big message in the tech media’s coverage of the mega-blackout that took down the power grid serving much of the northeast ...
Blackout Blog
Power is back up in Ithaca, NY. Check this link for blackout coverage on the web. Yesterday, our power cut out at 4:11 pm like many on the east coast. I was in the middle of a work email and was irked, thinking it was a fuse blowing out. We looked out and heard neighbors ...
Subway, NYC
Taken on on Lexington Ave.
Audio-on-demand service for cellphones
RealNetworks and Sprint will announce today that they’ve teamed up on a digital audio service that will offer content from ABC News, Fox Sports, National Public Radio and others. The service, which will cost $4.95 a month, will be available on various handsets and ill include a monophonic digital audio program and the ability to ...
Personalized searches
Kaltix, a Web search venture formed by three members of Stanford University’s PageRank team, is bent on out-Googling Google by developing a speedier version of the Stanford PageRank algorithm and using it to develop a more personalized Web search service. “Kaltix is a ‘stealth-mode’ startup… (leveraging) research done at Stanford University as well as several ...
The Accelerating Rate of Change
Futurist Ray Kurzweill says that “the whole 20th century, because we’ve been speeding up to this point, is equivalent to 20 years of progress at today’s rate of progress, and we’ll make another 20 years of progress at today’s rate of progress equal to the whole 20th century in the next 14 years, and then ...
I heart NYC
Driving to New York tomorrow morning for Z’s interview. Looking forward to seeing E and A and staying at the W New York on Lexington. Planning to have dinner at a little Korean vegetarian place, Hangawi. Wonder if we’ll have time to go to the Whitney to see American Effect. The exhibition “explores a wide ...
Is erosion helping Himalayas to grow?
Are erosion and tectonics combining to cause the edge of Tibet to slide away, geologically speaking, from the main body of Tibet? Peter Zeitler and Anne Meltzer, professors of earth and environmental sciences at Lehigh, are leading an international study of erosion and tectonic processes near Namche Barwa, which at 23,000 feet is the highest ...
XHTML 1.0
Welcome to version 3! It’s been a long time coming but when it came down to it, it only took me the night to cut this site over with a new non-design and XHTML 1.0 transitional stylesheets. Max was busy doing the same with his so I figured the time was right. More thoughts on ...
Opera browser gaining users
The Opera web browser has been downloaded 10 million times already this year and is “showing growing signs of use despite Microsoft’s continued dominance,” says this piece. The Norwegian company behind Opera “sees America Online’s reduced commitment to developing future versions of Netscape as a good sign for its own future.” Opera CEO Jon von ...